Safety hat-pin.



J. KAMP.

SAFETY HAT PIN.

APPLIGATION FILED APR. 30, 1912.

Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

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JOHN KAMP, 0F GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

SAFETY HAT-PIN.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented litar. 30, 1915..

Application filed. April 30, 1912. Serial No. 694,117.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that 1, JOHN KAMP, citizen of the United States, residing atGrand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Safetyl-lat-Pins, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in safety hat pins,and the object of my invention is to provide a hat pin with a compoundhead, one portion of which may be removed and applied to the point ofthe pin.

A further object of my invention 1s to provide the removable member ofthe pin head with a safety attachment adapted for engagement with thehat and operable either when said member is acting as a part of the heador when it is acting as a guard for the point of the pin. And a stillfurther object of my invention is to improve the construction andincrease the eificiency of hat pin guards of the above describedcharacter.

With these and other objects in view, my invention will bemore fullydescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and thenspecifically pointed out in the clalm which is attached to and forms apart of this application.

In the drawings: Figure 1 15 a perspective view of my hat pin; Fig. 2 isa longitudinal section of the same; Fig. 8 is a longitudinal section,showing the removable head member employed as a guard.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawing by the samereference characters.

The preferred embodiment of my invention includes a hat pin shank 1Opointed at one end as at 11 and provided at its opposite end with anornamental head 12 of any preferred design. This head is composed of twomembers, a fixed member and a detachable member, the fixed member 13being formed of any desired metal and in any preferred shape andterminating at its free end in the cylindrical socket 1a which ispreferably formed of resilient metal and fiared at its outer end, asshown. To further increase the resiliency of this socket, its outer endmay be slitted longitudinally as shown at 15. The fixed member 13 ishollow in construction and is preferably filled with any suitablesubstance, such as cork or rubber, the filling surrounding the extremityof the pin shank 10 and forming a closure at the bottom of the socket14. As this socket forms the outer or exposed end of the pin headproper, it is preferably fancifully formed to present an attractiveappearance, probably the most satisfactory way being to fashion it inthe shape of a cup-shaped flower, the slits then forming the sides ofthe petals. The detachable head member 16 may also be of any preferredform and is provided at its inner end with a cylindrical extension 17also preferably formed of re silient metal and adapted for engagement inthe socket 14 of the fixed head member. This removable head member ishollow in construction-and is filled with any preferred elasticsubstance or material, such as cork or rubber. In order to preventaccidental disengagement and loss of the removable head member, I haveprovided its shell with a rim 18 to which is attached a short chain 19provided at its free end with a small pin 20 of any preferred type andadapted for attachment to the brim or body of the hat when the pin is inuse. The shell of the removable head member is also provided with anencircling liange 18 adjacent the free extremity of the reducedextension 17, the said flange forming a stop shoulder arranged to engagethe outer terminal of the wall of the socket of the fixed head member tolimit the reduced extension in its inward movement within said socketwhen attaching the removable head member to the fixed head member. 7

In operation, the head members are frictionally held together and thepin is applied in the usual manner. When so applied, the head membersmay be left as they are if desired, or the removable head member 16 maybe separated and applied to the point of the pin, said point beingforced into a longitudinally extending bore formed in the filling of theremovable head member. In either case, the small pin 20 may be fastenedto the hat in such a manner as to prevent its loss and, if in the formercase, in such a manner as to prevent the loss of the hat pin itself. Inthe latter case, of course, the pin is held against disengagement by thebinding action between the point of the pin and the elastic filling ofthe detachable head member.

As will be seen by forming the guard of the pin point as a detachableportion of the pin head proper, I have practically provided two pins inone as the pin, if worn as it ordinarily is, without any guard, may beworn with the detachable head member applied to the fixed head member orwith the fixed head alone.

The fixed head of the pin is preferably made relatively, small as shown,in order that the pin may present a neat appearance when both headmembers are employed as the pin head, and it will be seen that even whenthe removable head member is to be used as a guard, if first applied tothe fixed head member, it will assist materially in the properapplication of the pin to the hat.

It will of course be understood that both head members will be formed ofthe same metal and ornamented and designed in uniformity with each otherto present a neat and attractive appearance.

Having thus described the invention,what is claimed as new is:

A hat pin including a shank, a fixed head 'm'ember carried terminallythereof, the free extremity of said member terminating in a cylindricalsocket the wall of which is pro- 5:;

tongues disposed in spaced relation around 7 the entire circumferenceof'said. wall, the said tongues being free at their outer ends, and aremovable head member adapted for application to the point of the shankand having a resilient extension adapted to seat in the socket of thefixed head member to bear against said resilient gripping tongues, saidextension being provided with an encircling fiange forming a shoulderarranged to contact with the adjacent extremity. of the wall of thesocket tov limit the inward movement of the extension within the socket.In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

7 JOHN KAMP; [Ls] Witnesses:

ART KAAINAN, F. TAYLOR PEOK.

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